Go to B & C’s Facebook page to enter a contest to guess what Cynthia did. Prize is a copy of Gene Weingarten’s book, “The Fiddler in the Subway”. http://www.facebook.com/BarneyAndClyde?ref=ts
Asking anyone what the character in this comic strip did could only be answered with conjecture at this point, unless of course the cartoonists feel the need to personally answer.
Otherwise, asking is rather pointless! Pointing that out is definitely not mockery of any sort!
Cynthia’s father and step-mother are both staring at her (the father is on the left side of the panel and the step-mother is on the right). We can’t see them in the middle two panels. Maybe they are hateful people and will mock her. We don’t know yet…
The others are correct. My post was not mockery. I left out the parts where I mock you, this time.
But to answer your direct question, I’ve explained many times precisely why I find so many of your posts objectionable. By this time you know full well what sorts of comments from you are going to cause complaint (and not merely from me), and if you continue to post them you ought at least to stop pretending to wonder why the complaints follow. It’s disingenuous.
By the way, Ushindi, you forgot to mention that the Channel 5 news crew is outside, at the window. We don’t see them today, but they were there yesterday, and since we haven’t explicitly been told that they’ve left we should presume they are still there. We wouldn’t want anyone to forget, because they may be visible again tomorrow or sometime in the future, and people who have trouble remembering details for more than 24 hours might be unduly surprised if they were to be shown again.
Many regions of the nation have a Channel 5, as the low numbers on the VHF dial were (and continue to be) popular assignments for network affiliates. As such, many of them would have news teams. So we can’t tell from the mere existence of a Channel 5 news team where this strip might take place. It wouldn’t be in my home town, though. We didn’t have a Channel 5. We had a Channel 15, though, which was the local NBC network affiliate. The other network affiliates in my hometown were Channel 17, which was the ABC affiliate, and Channel 3, which was the CBS affiliate. Of the three, you’ll notice that only the CBS affiliate had a number which was on the VHF dial. The other two were on the UHF dial. As I mentioned, this was a rather odd situation, in that network affiliates most often have numbers low on the VHF dial. Our public broadcasting station was Channel 12, which is not quite the highest number on the VHF dial (it goes to 13).
VHF stands for Very High Frequency, and UHF stands for Ultra High Frequency. Ultra High is higher than Very High.
With modern cable television, though, the channels which you can access on your TV no longer bear a direct relationship to the frequencies of a broadcast signal, so they can squeeze lots of non-broadcast channels onto the low numbers of your dial (even though it’s usually not a dial anymore) without having the radio waves interfering with one another (even though it’s for your television and not your radio, those frequencies of electromagnetic radiation are still called “radio waves”).
@ : fritzoid. I think we all know that whodat? loves to draw folks in, take the opposite side, spew out a few insults, then feign innocence and shock that he is being questioned. It is the way of most bullies. Basically, he’s a decent Joe (hehe) but his wires are crossed. I enjoy reading the comments here but a lot of his posts are, to be polite, unnecessary and pedantic. Don’t let him get your goat….. but give ‘em Hell, Harry!
But gosh, don’t I know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff? How are any of you going to know that I know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff if I don’t post the stuff I know, and lots of it?
What I really want to know is why you write what you write. You’ve never answered THAT one…
You’ve mentioned that you’ve received the same treatment on other sites. Do you notice many other people continually receiving the level of vituperation that you seem to routinely engender? Why doesn’t it occur to you that YOU are the instigator of your own mocking?
The solution is and always has been in your own hands.
docopenhaver about 14 years ago
I hope she dipped a spammer in napalm and lit him up! (they seem to be out in full-force today)
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
“What did Cynthia do in her art class/”
That question is unanswerable given the information we have at this point. We will all find out when you do, when the cartoonists tell us.
hedgehog99 about 14 years ago
Go to B & C’s Facebook page to enter a contest to guess what Cynthia did. Prize is a copy of Gene Weingarten’s book, “The Fiddler in the Subway”. http://www.facebook.com/BarneyAndClyde?ref=ts
jpozenel about 14 years ago
I agree shytimes2.
Asking anyone what the character in this comic strip did could only be answered with conjecture at this point, unless of course the cartoonists feel the need to personally answer.
Otherwise, asking is rather pointless! Pointing that out is definitely not mockery of any sort!
Smiley Rmom about 14 years ago
Joe - If you weren’t directing that question at the gocomics members, who were you asking?
Ushindi about 14 years ago
Cynthia’s father and step-mother are both staring at her (the father is on the left side of the panel and the step-mother is on the right). We can’t see them in the middle two panels. Maybe they are hateful people and will mock her. We don’t know yet…
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
Joe: “Why did you have to mock what I wrote?”
The others are correct. My post was not mockery. I left out the parts where I mock you, this time.
But to answer your direct question, I’ve explained many times precisely why I find so many of your posts objectionable. By this time you know full well what sorts of comments from you are going to cause complaint (and not merely from me), and if you continue to post them you ought at least to stop pretending to wonder why the complaints follow. It’s disingenuous.
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
By the way, Ushindi, you forgot to mention that the Channel 5 news crew is outside, at the window. We don’t see them today, but they were there yesterday, and since we haven’t explicitly been told that they’ve left we should presume they are still there. We wouldn’t want anyone to forget, because they may be visible again tomorrow or sometime in the future, and people who have trouble remembering details for more than 24 hours might be unduly surprised if they were to be shown again.
Many regions of the nation have a Channel 5, as the low numbers on the VHF dial were (and continue to be) popular assignments for network affiliates. As such, many of them would have news teams. So we can’t tell from the mere existence of a Channel 5 news team where this strip might take place. It wouldn’t be in my home town, though. We didn’t have a Channel 5. We had a Channel 15, though, which was the local NBC network affiliate. The other network affiliates in my hometown were Channel 17, which was the ABC affiliate, and Channel 3, which was the CBS affiliate. Of the three, you’ll notice that only the CBS affiliate had a number which was on the VHF dial. The other two were on the UHF dial. As I mentioned, this was a rather odd situation, in that network affiliates most often have numbers low on the VHF dial. Our public broadcasting station was Channel 12, which is not quite the highest number on the VHF dial (it goes to 13).
VHF stands for Very High Frequency, and UHF stands for Ultra High Frequency. Ultra High is higher than Very High.
With modern cable television, though, the channels which you can access on your TV no longer bear a direct relationship to the frequencies of a broadcast signal, so they can squeeze lots of non-broadcast channels onto the low numbers of your dial (even though it’s usually not a dial anymore) without having the radio waves interfering with one another (even though it’s for your television and not your radio, those frequencies of electromagnetic radiation are still called “radio waves”).
joefish25 about 14 years ago
@ : fritzoid. I think we all know that whodat? loves to draw folks in, take the opposite side, spew out a few insults, then feign innocence and shock that he is being questioned. It is the way of most bullies. Basically, he’s a decent Joe (hehe) but his wires are crossed. I enjoy reading the comments here but a lot of his posts are, to be polite, unnecessary and pedantic. Don’t let him get your goat….. but give ‘em Hell, Harry!
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
But gosh, don’t I know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff? How are any of you going to know that I know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff if I don’t post the stuff I know, and lots of it?
joefish25 about 14 years ago
fritzoid Premium Member about 14 years ago
Why do you have to read what I write?
What I really want to know is why you write what you write. You’ve never answered THAT one…
You’ve mentioned that you’ve received the same treatment on other sites. Do you notice many other people continually receiving the level of vituperation that you seem to routinely engender? Why doesn’t it occur to you that YOU are the instigator of your own mocking?
The solution is and always has been in your own hands.